Gary “Z” McGee, Waking Times “To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” —Jorge Luis Borges “Trickster god is god’s God,” Crow says, peering from behind The Branches of Lost Time. These branches are a metaphor for our misremembered synapses. They symbolize our having lost touch with both our … Continue reading
Sol Luckman Having played around with watercolors for years, I started painting seriously with inks in 2010. Since then my portfolio has expanded from a mere handful of pieces to over 250 works on paper and canvas. Several years ago, Destiny Books asked for permission to use one of my ink-on-paper paintings on the cover … Continue reading
[SL: This timely article is excerpted from internationally renowned shaman and bestselling author Itzhak Beery’s newest book, SHAMANIC HEALING: TRADITIONAL MEDICINE FOR THE MODERN WORLD. I hope you enjoy this segment enough to explore the entire text as well as its excellent prequels, THE GIFT OF SHAMANISM and SHAMANIC TRANSFORMATIONS. I’m thrilled and honored that … Continue reading
Sol Luckman That winter in the high desert, as snow blanketed the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and I spent more and more time indoors and inwardly focused, an important preparatory stage in my bio-spiritual rebirth commenced. One day, for the first time ever in my career as a fiction writer, a character who seemed every … Continue reading
Sol Luckman Followers of my work may already know that I have a long-time connection with Crow Medicine. In a related article adapted from my book, POTENTIATE YOUR DNA, I explained that in many native wisdom traditions, Crow is the totem animal, or “medicine,” that “knows the unknowable mysteries of creation,” guards holy texts, and … Continue reading
Sol Luckman No sooner had I left graduate school at the end of May, 1998, than I was on my way to a brand-new variety of education that tremendously broadened my horizons—while also imparting much life energy, or chi (sometimes spelled qi), to my depleted and struggling systems. Qigong is an ancient technique of energy … Continue reading
